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Facebook Lawsuit and Reopen - The good-looking, all American brothers - whose intellectual property lawsuit against Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was portrayed in the biopic The Social Network - are challenging the $65 million dollar settlement with the social networking company. In the movie, the rowing jocks were portrayed as being reluctant to sue Zuckerberg, claiming it wasn’t the “Harvard way”, to chase the Facebook founder across the courtyard spoiling for a fight. But life, as they say – isn’t a movie. Not satisfied with their $65 million dollar payout, the twins (who come from one of the richest families in America) are appealing their settlement in the belief they are entitled to more - as much as $460 million more. Facebook Lawsuit and Reopen Their company, ConnectU, filed against Zuckerberg in 2007 alleging he stole their idea for a social networking site after they hired him to work on their website “HarvardConnection”. They settled in 2008, accepting a $6...